India keen to diversify oil exports, buy crude from US

New Delhi, Oct 28 (PTI) Hit by uncertainty over oil supplies from West Asia, India is keen to diversify its imports and wants to buy crude from the US, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said.

The new strategy is being planned to guard against disruption in supplies from its biggest sources in the Middle East - Iraq and Syria -- as they are caught in problems relating to Islamic State movement.